Athena in 2005
2005 was 95% worth living.
In 2005, Athena
did 16 things,
went 17 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 207 products.
Athena has written 3 year in review entries…
- My year in review — 1 year ago
- My year in review — 1 year ago
- My year in review — 7 months ago
January
Added to 43 Things:
- get a passport — completed about 1 year later
- learn to drive — completed about 1 year later
- Learn to knit — completed about 1 year later
- Try out 43 Things — completed about 1 year later
- Fly First Class
- visit cuba while castro is alive
- Live in another country
- travel the world
- live in london
- live passionately
- Learn to cook
- have better posture — completed over 2 years later
- Get a digital SLR camera
- see the northern lights
- Go to graduate school
Completed on 43 Things:
- eat healthier — Worth doing!
- Become fluent in more than one language — Worth doing!
- Practice Yoga — Worth doing!
- learn french — Worth doing!
- Visit China — Worth doing!
- get a job
- Learn to speak cantonese — Worth doing!
- Give blood — Worth doing!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
→ See more from February
March
Completed on 43 Things:
- Keep a journal — Worth doing!
- start using the library — Worth doing!
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- have conversations late into the night with fascinating people — completed about 1 year later
- be more confident
→ See more from April
May
Read:
- Boy Meets Girl
- Every Boy's Got One — Not worth consuming
- The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess in Waiting (Princess Diaries) — Worth consuming!
- The Princess Diaries, Volume V: Princess in Pink (Princess Diaries) — Worth consuming!
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training (Princess Diaries) — Worth consuming!
- The Boy Next Door — Not worth consuming
- Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
- Project Princess (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 4 1/2) — Not worth consuming
- Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
- All-American Girl — Not worth consuming
- Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 2) — Worth consuming!
- Princess in Love (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 3) — Worth consuming!
- Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
Watched:
- A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
- The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Say Anything — Worth consuming!
- The Ruling Class - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Monty Python Live — Worth consuming!
- The Thin Man (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
- Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition — Worth consuming!
- Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Closer (Superbit Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Sideways (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Animal Farm — Not worth consuming
- The Full Monty — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
- stop drinking soda — completed 8 months later
- identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money) — completed about 1 year later
- Buy a new computer — completed about 1 year later
- Write a will
Completed on 43 Things:
- write in my journal every day — Worth doing!
- Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Montreal — visited 5 months later
- Hong Kong — visited about 1 year later
- Macau — visited about 1 year later
- Byward Market — visited about 1 year later
- Scotland
- Argentina
- Maldives
- Turkey
- California
- Praha
- Venezia
- Switzerland
- Australia
- Greece
- India
Visited on 43 Places:
- Ottawa — Worth visiting!
- China — Worth visiting!
- Canada — Worth visiting!
- Toronto — Worth visiting!
- Québec Province — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Worth consuming!
- White Teeth: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Island of the Blue Dolphins — Worth consuming!
- A Room with a View (Classic) — Worth consuming!
- A Year in the Merde — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
- X&Y — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- My Neighbor Totoro (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Ghost in the Shell — Worth consuming!
- His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
- In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Toy Story 2 — Worth consuming!
- The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Kid (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Circus (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Rain Man (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Completed on 43 Things:
- wake up when my alarm clock goes off — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Parliament Hill — Worth visiting!
- Niagara Falls — Worth visiting!
- CN Tower — Worth visiting!
- Québec City — Worth visiting!
- Ontario — Worth visiting!
- Zhuhai — Worth visiting!
Read:
- The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet) — Worth consuming!
- To the Lighthouse — Worth consuming!
- Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Worth consuming!
- The Prophet — Worth consuming!
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) — Worth consuming!
- The Celestine Prophecy — Worth consuming!
- The Old Man and The Sea — Worth consuming!
- 100 Selected Poems — Worth consuming!
- Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking — Worth consuming!
- Eating My Words : An Appetite For Life — Worth consuming!
- Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers : More Mad, Marvy Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
Watched:
- Like Water for Chocolate — Worth consuming!
- The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Fargo (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The General — Worth consuming!
- Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- To Have and Have Not (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Worth consuming!
- The African Queen — Worth consuming!
- Mambo Italiano — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Added to 43 Things:
- play the piano again
- exercise regularly — completed over 2 years later
- re-learn the violin.
- learn to dance
Completed on 43 Things:
- Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" — Worth doing!
- read Anna Karenina — Worth doing!
- Master this shirt-folding technique — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Mississauga — Not worth visiting
- Upper Canada Village — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Identity: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The BFG — Worth consuming!
- The Eyre Affair — Worth consuming!
- Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Novels) — Worth consuming!
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Worth consuming!
- A Clockwork Orange — Worth consuming!
- Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Worth consuming!
- A Long Way Down — Worth consuming!
- Garlic and Sapphires : The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise — Worth consuming!
- The Motorcycle Diaries : A Latin American Journey — Worth consuming!
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics ; L92) — Worth consuming!
- A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Dogville — Worth consuming!
- The Phantom of the Opera (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Transporter — Worth consuming!
- Visions of England — Worth consuming!
- Chaplin — Worth consuming!
- Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre — Worth consuming!
- Shanghai Knights — Worth consuming!
- Ella Enchanted (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Jane Eyre [Import] — Worth consuming!
- The Letter — Worth consuming!
- Cinema Paradiso - The New Version — Worth consuming!
→ See more from August
September
Read:
- Mostly Harmless — Worth consuming!
- Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Mystery — Worth consuming!
- The Glass Menagerie — Worth consuming!
- Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland) — Worth consuming!
- Something Blue — Worth consuming!
- The Undomestic Goddess — Worth consuming!
- The Well of Lost Plots — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Sin City — Worth consuming!
- Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Kiki's Delivery Service — Worth consuming!
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Jane Eyre — Worth consuming!
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Jane Eyre (1996) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from September
October
Read:
- Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
- Marvel 1602 Volume 1 HC (Marvel Heroes) — Worth consuming!
- Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman, Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
- The Polysyllabic Spree — Worth consuming!
- Siddhartha — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Crash (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Read:
Watched:
- The House of Mirth — Worth consuming!
- Brotherhood of Wolf (Spec Sub) — Worth consuming!
- Star Trek - Nemesis (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Grapes of Wrath — Worth consuming!
→ See more from November
December
Added to 43 Places:
- Gatineau — visited 6 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Zhongshan — Worth visiting!
- Guangdong — Worth visiting!
- Montreal — Worth visiting!
- Gatineau Park — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Read:
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
- The Crucible (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Fight Club : A Novel (Literary Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House — Worth consuming!
- It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken : The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy — Worth consuming!
- The Great Movies II — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Metropolis — Worth consuming!
- The Blue Angel — Worth consuming!
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Heavenly Creatures — Worth consuming!
- Muriel's Wedding — Worth consuming!
- 2046 — Worth consuming!
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — Worth consuming!
- Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
- From Here to Eternity — Worth consuming!
- Dr. Dolittle 2
- Brokeback Mountain — Worth consuming!
- The Lover — Worth consuming!
